This is what postnatal depression really feels like
Mar 25, 2019 13:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Motherhood can be a source of joy, but it can also pose difficulties and challenges particularly, in the postnatal period. It is a time when some mothers emotional and physical endurance is pushed to the limit. About...
Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be hurting your health
Mar 21, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans health and that some communities are affected more than others. The 2019 County Health Rankings, an annual collaborative report...
Having one mental health disorder increases your risks of getting another
Mar 21, 2019 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New studies reveal that most psychiatric illnesses are related to one another. Tracing these connections, like the mapping of a river system, promises to help define the main cause of these disorders and the drugs that...
Tick, tock: The countdown to peak tick season is here
Mar 21, 2019 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature Health
With spring comes glorious sunshine, warmer weather and ticks. Ticks and some insect pests can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that may cause disease in humans. One in particular, the blacklegged deer tick Ixodes...
Domestic abuse: the psychology of coercive control remains a legal battlefield
Mar 21, 2019 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Not everyone was celebrating when Sally Challens murder conviction for killing her husband was quashed. The backlash on social media indicates we still have a long way to go before domestic abuse is properly...
Vaping is an urgent threat to public health
Mar 14, 2019 03:53 am UTC| Health
Youth are using e-cigarettes (also known as vaping devices) at a rapidly increasing rate a practice that constitutes an urgent threat to public health. Preliminary survey data suggests that, for the first time in 30...
Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health
Mar 09, 2019 06:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Show me the bodies! someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago. As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy, I had just warned an audience of professors and university administrators about the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects